PHP

Playing with the Hacker News API using Guzzle

Playing with the Hacker News API using Guzzle

Hacker News released its API to the world a few days ago. Data geeks previously had to rely on web scraping and paginated results to obtain data from the Hacker News site, but things have changed now. With Hacker News’ official API, we have a structured way to tap into the data.  More

Geo-targeting your website to a specific country

Geo-targeting your website to a specific country

What if I could show you a way to restrict users on your website by geo-location? With just a few lines of PHP code, you can restrict, or depending on the situation, show, different content to users from different countries. I am sure you get the idea. More

Laravel 4 Pagination with Infinite Scroll using jQuery

Laravel 4 Pagination with Infinite Scroll using jQuery

This tutorial is born right from the Vinkk code base.  I was in the same boat as you a few weeks ago, and when I didn’t find out something elegant, I decided to roll up my own solution. Well, in true Mr. Geek fashion, I am sharing with you the “Laravel 4 Pagination with Infinite Scroll using jQuery” tutorial. More

Managing Assets in Laravel 4 using Helpers and HTML Builder

Managing Assets in Laravel 4 using Helpers and HTML Builder

Laravel 4 doesn’t have a lot of documentation on managing assets such as stylesheets or Javascript files. Laravel 3′s documentation did however, but it seems to have been omitted for the newer version somehow. Today, I’ll be showing you some neat ways to manage assets using Helper functions and HTML Builder. More

Dead simple CRUD in Laravel 4

Dead simple CRUD in Laravel 4

I feel I’ve come late to the party. But they say, it’s never too late. Laravel’s community has matured and it’s safe to say the framework has brought the sexy back to PHP. Laravel is dead simple. It’s expressive, elegant, and extremely powerful at the same time.  More

Setting up Laravel 4 on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Setting up Laravel 4 on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

I come from the world of CodeIgniter, the ailing framework who was once the Zeus of the PHP framework arena. I have written around 20,000 lines of code in CodeIgniter, and developed a marketplace platform back in 2012. More

Getting Started With Twilio SMS | Part 1 of Series

Getting Started With Twilio SMS | Part 1 of Series

When your customers are away from their computers, there is no better way to reach them than on their mobile phones.  Now with Voice and SMS services from Twilio, it’s possible for anyone to build an advanced phone system at a price anyone can afford. More